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Easter Motifs – Embroidery and Appliqué on Easter Eggs

Easter is all about Easter Eggs. In Ukrainian meaning,
Easter is about Pysanky, which are hand painted Ukrainian Easter Eggs. I know,
I know, the ethnographers will correct me: traditional Ukrainian Easter Eggs
are not painted – they are written, because they are called Pysanky (plural) in
Ukrainian, which created from a word pysaty – to write. Typical Ukrainian
Pysanky are decorated with a wax and a stylus – that’s why it’s called written.
However, there are few other types of Ukrainian Easter Eggs decorations, and
Wikipedia knows more about it.

Of course, I like and respect traditional Ukrainian Easter
Eggs art, but my heart is on “something unusual” and “something different” side
- like, for example, embroidered Easter Eggs. Never heard about ones? Me too,
until I saw these, without any doubts, masterpieces:

Images credit: Annick Levain

Beautiful, aren’t they? The eggs are silk-embroidered, ones
of a kind, created by Elizabeth Klein from France.

Here are cross-stitched ones, created… guess where? In Ukraine!
This is a perfect combination of two traditional Ukrainian crafts in one -
embroidery and Easter Eggs decorating:

The eggs are cross-stitched by Inna Forostyuk, a crafter
from Ukraine.
The patterns on the eggs are very typical for Ukrainian embroidery, like
ceremonial towel, shirts, blouses etc.
And here are lovely cross-stitched Easter Eggs from Poland. I love the colors and the patterns!

Well, next two Easter Eggs went beyond my “something
different” expectations! They are made in few techniques – embroidery and
appliqué (the one with baby chick on it) and embroidery, an appliqué and even
little bit of beading (the one with purple flowers):

Both embroidered/appliquéd eggs are exhibits of only one
Museum of Ukrainian Easter Eggs in the world – the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia,
Ivano-Franivsk oblast’, West Ukraine. I have visited this Museum few times in
my trips to Ukraine
and I would like to go again and again – there are lots to see and discover!

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You don’t need visa for travel to Ukraine

If you are citizen of USA, Canada, European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, you don’t need a TOURIST visa for travel to Ukraine. Decree about it was signed in 2005. Tourist visa to Ukraine means that you are going to stay in Ukraine not more than 90 days. So for your short term stay in Ukraine (less than 90 days) you just need to have a travel passport and to buy a ticket, that’s it.
P.S. The same rules work for the citizens of Japan, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland, Monaco, Norway and San Marino. People of these countries don’t need a tourist visa to Ukraine, too.